Comments on: Pardon Me, I Apparently Forgot I’m Dumb and Fickle

By: Gunfighter

Gunfighter — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:25:00 +0000

Actually, I thought it was satire, too.

As did my 50 year old feminist-with-a Ph.D-who-volunteered-for-McGovern-wife.

By: Jerseygirl89

Jerseygirl89 — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:53:00 +0000

Articles like that make me want to shake people until their heads pop off. Everyone is dumb and fickle, dammit!

By: Mama Drama Jenny, the Bloggess

Mama Drama Jenny, the Bloggess — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:48:00 +0000

If I read that paper I’d boycott it.

By: PunditMom

PunditMom — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:33:00 +0000

I read the Q&A. I couldn’t believe it. People are still claiming this was satire. I don’t think so.

As for Linda H., don’t get me started.

By: Mama Said

Mama Said — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:49:00 +0000

Oh, the one who actually used the word “fickle” is that attention whore Linda somethin’-or-another. She’s also the one who said that (paraphrasing) SAHMs are morons who are wasting their lives. Book sales must have peaked.

By: Deep Fried Yankee

Deep Fried Yankee — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:33:00 +0000

Way to ruin fairly interesting topic about how women vote (or at least, that’s what I’m going to say might have been a good topic).

I’ve never seen penis envy so alive and well.

By: Sunshine

Sunshine — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:56:00 +0000

I read the “We Scream” article and many of the comments, some striking me that women need to get over ourselves and take a joke.
If her article was a joke or a ha-ha jab at womankind, I missed the sarcasm or the eye wink.
The Washington Post should examine both this writer and the editorial staff who approved the article. Maybe they could do with a house cleaning.

By: ohslowburn

ohslowburn — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:20:00 +0000

Even more interesting was Allen’s Q&A on the post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/03/04/DI2008030402153.html)

I had fun watching the exchanges just because she and her audience were at such cross purposes. She just didn’t get why she’d offended folks. They just didn’t get why she didn’t get that. And she seemed kinda defensive in places. One of those instances where you shouldn’t discuss matters of great import over a live Q&A where emotion doesn’t convey over oneliners.

And I have to say, when I first read those two articles, I thought to myself, “Maybe I just haven’t had enough tea yet, maybe there’s a point and I just don’t get it.” I was too sleepy on a sunday morning to be pissed.

By: SUEB0B

SUEB0B — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:03:00 +0000

You have to read the transcripts of the liveblog they had with the writer…(I posted a link over at http://linkateria.blogspot.com). She really, really hates women. She isn’t joking. It is kind of frightening, really. I question the editorial judgement that gave her a forum.